• The Hill, Friday, August 20, 2010 3:36 PM

At a rally on Thursday, a member of the Federal Communications Commission denounced the net-neutrality framework proposed by Google and Verizon, saying it would create "gated communities for the affluent" online, reports The Hill. "FCC Commissioner Michael Copps said the plan proposed by the companies would protect the firms' interests at the expense of consumers," writes The Hill's Hillicon Valley technology blog.

"The Verizon-Google gaggle wants to build a world of private Internets that would vastly diminish the centrality of the Internet that you and I know," Copps said Thursday. "They want a tiered Internet ... 'Managed services' is what they call this ... 'Gated communities for the affluent' is what I call them." According to The Hill, Copps said the Google-Verizon plan would erode the FCC's authority to impose net-neutrality rules on wireless broadband providers, which are increasingly used to access online services.

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